IIT Bombay Director Professor Subhasish Chowdhary with Nandan NilekaniImage Credit source: Twitter- Nandan Nilekani @NandanNilekani
IIT Bombay: Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of the famous company Infosys, has donated Rs 315 crore to the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay. This is one of the biggest donations made by an alumnus of an educational institution. According to media reports, IIT Bombay He has taken this step to establish world class technology.
IT Bombay Director Professor Subhasis Chowdhary and Nandan Nilekani signed the MoU in Bengaluru. He has given information about this by tweeting. Please tell that Nandan himself has been a student of IIT Bombay.
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Did engineering from IIT Bombay
Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani has also been an alumnus of IIT Bombay. He has obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering from this institute. In the year 1973, he completed his engineering. He has done this on completion of 50 years of his pass out.
To mark 50 years of my association with @iitbombay, I am donating ₹315 crores to my alma mater. I am grateful to be able to do this🙏
Full release: https://t.co/q6rvuMf2jn pic.twitter.com/f8OEfZ1UTq
— Nandan Nilekani (@NandanNilekani) June 20, 2023
Earlier, Nilekani had donated Rs 85 crore to IIT Bombay. If both their donations are added, then the total is 400 crores. Let us tell you that this is the biggest donation made by an alumnus to his institution. Nandan Nilekani said that IIT Bombay is the cornerstone of my life. He said that this donation is a tribute to me and a commitment to the students who have the future of the country in their hands.
Nandan Neelkani served on the Board of the IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation from 1999 to 2009 and was on the Board of Governors from 2005 to 2011. He was awarded the prestigious Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1999. After this, in the year 2019, he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the IIT Bombay convocation.
